A woman shows her passport and that of her son to reporters as she leaves an immigration office Tuesday in Havana, Cuba. The Cuban government announced Tuesday it will no longer require islanders to apply for an exit visa, eliminating a much-loathed bureaucratic procedure that has been a major impediment for many seeking to travel overseas for more than a half-century. (ASSOCIATED PRESS / Ramon Espinosa)

The one thing that stands out now is that the travel restrictions are all on the side of the United States," Peters added, referring to the longtime ban on American tourism to the island as part of the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba. "That's kind of ironic.